You may be quite right but I, for one, have learned not to assume anything when seeing such reports, e.g., we don't know how "permanent or long term" that tank is. What if this is a quarantine or even a photo tank?
But even if we did know this was a long-term tank, I too learned to restrain unsolicited critique and I have been slowly learning to rather err on the safe side because it is so easy and tempting and even self-vindicating for me to slide towards an animal-lover-people-hater type of a person. We have plenty of those around (not you!) but they appear to produce little but hatred.
Black and white thinking is attractive because it is easy, requires no thinking but acting on impulses and instincts, like animals, and we tend to want to simplify things to this extreme condition, most usually throwing away a baby with the dirty grey water. Cutting through the grey area is hard and requires thinking, reading and researching, knowledge, patience, good will, skill, consideration, and care.
In other words, breaking is easy, building is hard. How do you offer a valid critique and build up the person, learn from them and with them? It's almost an art or at least a good piece of work.
My $0.02
Fair enough. This is the second time this member posted this same fish in the same tank. I posted, on that first thread, thst the fish is a very nice specimen but also critiqued the size of the tank. The OP made no reply posts to that critique. Critique is not necessarily a bash or a flame. I feel I am doing the hobby a good service by pointing out, to perhaps a newbie viewing the same thread, that it is not ok to keep any creature in that type of confinement for life.
.....and those are my 2 pennies
Sorry for the derail TS
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